Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.

Adaptations? For Spring? Groundbreaking.

Project Hail Mary continues to rule the box office (more than $300 million globally!), but there are tons of adaptations you watch from the comfort of your couch, too. For my money, April’s biggest coming attraction is Apple TV’s take on Margo’s Got Money Troubles. If you’d prefer something more aligned with our current political hellscape, Hulu is rolling out its Handmaid’s Tale sequel based on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. There’s also time to revisit The Devil Wears Prada before that sequel hits theaters in May, and if you missed American Fiction, based on Percival Everett’s Erasure, when it was in theaters, there’s no time like the present on Prime Video. Me? I’m still making my way through the latest season of Virgin River on Netflix, which apparently everyone is watching though none of us are talking about it.

Author of The Boxcar Children Finally Gets Her Flowers

In the latest installment of the “Overlooked” series, which offers belated obituaries for notable people whose deaths the paper did not originally cover, the New York Times pays homage to Gertrude Chandler Warner, creator of the Boxcar Children series. If you’re not familiar, the series follows four orphaned siblings who set up house in an abandoned railroad car in the woods. If you’re thinking that’s pretty dark stuff for a kids’ book series, you’re not wrong, but kids’ entertainment was different in the 1920s, when Warner first started writing the series. After revising it for nearly two decades—her students panned the original draft—Warner published the first book in what would become a 19-title series in 1942. By the time Penguin Random House acquired the rights in 2023, more than 80 million copies of Boxcar Children books had been sold.

I have no idea if kids still read Boxcar Children books today or even how many of elder-millennial peers would recognize the series, but they are part of some of my earliest reading memories, and I’m delighted to see Warner’s impact and legacy get some notice.

The Voice of Your Favorite Shadow Daddy

Anthony Palmini is the voice of ACOTAR. He voiced more than 50 audiobooks last year and plans to double it this year (how?!), and he’s as surprised by the turn his career has taken as anyone. The culture of audiobook narrator fandom was a real surprise to me when I started working in books, and I remain fascinated by it. Fun to get to know one of the people bringing some of the most popular books of the moment to life for listeners.

The Lambda Literary Awards, Messy Internet Discourse, the Latest A.I. Panic, and More

Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz and Associate Editor Erica Ezeifedi took over the Book Riot Podcast this week to discuss the Lambda Literary Award finalists, the latest A.I. publishing freakout, messy internet discourse, and more. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your podcatcher of choice.